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Archie Pelago is a trio that produces music collectively and performs live.   The group is Hirshi (trumpet, turntables), Cosmo D (cello, Ableton) and Kroba (sax, Ableton).

NEW ALBUM
out oct 14, on Brainfeeder
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I LIKE TO SLEEP are a young and energetic powerjazz trio based in Trondheim. The trio were brought together by a common interest in modern jazz language, free improvisation and 70’s jazz/prog-rock, as well as a passion for energetic and extreme music. The product of these wide-ranging musical influences can now be experienced through the unique combination of vibraphone, baritone guitar and drums that is I LIKE TO SLEEP. They specialise in heavy riffs, extensive improvisation pushed to its limits, and well-written melodies – a style labelled “powerjazz to the people”.

I LIKE TO SLEEP released their debut LP “BEDMONSTER” on All Good Clean Records on the 6th of October 2017, and distributed via the German Stickman Records, and the Norwegian Diger Distro. Now they're recording their second release, a double album, together with engineer wizard Jørgen Træen, with some help from their friend Mats Gustafsson.

Since the beginning of I LIKE TO SLEEP in 2015, they’ve played at most jazz festivals in Norway such as Moldejazz, Jazzfest etc., and they’ve played support for bands such as Motorpsycho (two times) and soon Elephant9. 
In 2018 the band managed to get to the finals in Jazzintro - “The years young norwegian jazz musician 2018”, and won the the whole thing, getting a GRAMO grant worth 150.000 NOK, as well as a Norway Tour and mentor programme worth 200.000 NOK. The jury, consisting of well-known and established musicians as Kjetil Møster, Mette Rasmussen, Ellen Andrea Wang and Jan Gunnar Hoff also said that the band has a potential to become genre-defining in the Norwegian jazz. 

#POWERJAZZTOTHEPEOPLE

Amund Storløkken Åse NO - vibraphone and compositions
Nicolas Leirtrø NO - baritone guitar and compositions
Øyvind Leite NO - drums


Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/224IywptIkFB9hVBlDqrls

Tidal: 
http://tidal.com/album/80397619

Channelled madness – the sound Dawn of Midi spent years shaping, culminating into their most mesmerising work yet

With Dysnomia, the Brooklyn-based group Dawn of Midi abandons improvisation in favour of composition, utilising sophisticated rhythmic structures from North and West African folk traditions to weave a sonic tapestry of trance-inducing grooves. From close up one may see only dots, but when stepping back an undulating image reveals itself. “We didn’t want to create anything cerebral,” says Belyamani, “we wanted something visceral, something that would awaken our instinctive dance impulses.”
Having met at California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles in 2006, bassist Aakaash Israni, pianist Amino Belyamani and drummer Qasim Naqvi found their original rapport through late night tennis matches on the campus court. The chemistry they founded there eventually led them back indoors to improvise together; something they did in total darkness to deprive themselves of all their senses except the crucial one – their hearing.
The manner, by which a trio of solely acoustic instruments ends up sounding like electronic music, has to do with the unconventional ways the group play their instruments on Dysnomia. The record comes to life in the trio’s critically acclaimed live shows, a test of endurance and trust that involves performing their hand-looped acoustic minimalism note for note, just as the compositions were recorded. Dawn of Midi’s sets are as energetic and rhythmic as a seamlessly mixed DJ-set, mesmerising fans in the same way the group’s favourite experimental and electronic acts have for decades.
The album was recorded to 2-inch tape at Waterfront Studios in Hudson, New York - a former church that was purchased and transformed into an analogue recording playground by the great engineer Henry Hirsch. Once the band visited the studio and met Henry, an expert in analogue recording equipped with a vintage Helios console, 16 and 24-track tape machines and a superb collection of microphones, it was obvious they had to record there; it was miles ahead of anywhere else they had visited. Rusty Santos then mixed the album to make sure it would hit as hard as the group’s favourite electronic albums do in spite of it being entirely acoustic.
“We wanted to make a record that sounded both musically futuristic and sonically vintage,” explains Israni, “and since the album never saw a proper international release, it is very exciting to see what might happen when more people are exposed to it. And to be aligned with Erased Tapes, whose enthusiasm for the music they release has done a lot for exposing unique instrumental and electronic music, makes it that much more interesting.”

Dysnomia will be released worldwide on June 1st, 2015 through Erased Tapes – available on 2x LP, CD and Download.

Amamjaubb was formed in 1998 on Amami-Oshima as a unit of composer Yasato. Later, a female singer Novo joined the group. While still living in Amami, They have been releasing music and performing gigs not only in Japan, but also in Australia and Taiwan. And especially in recent years, they have been expanding their activities by providing music for video works and collaborating with independent magazines.

Their performances are very fluid and multifaceted include TARANG-WAH-SESSIONS (meaning a live set that fits in a two-square meter space) which Novo's voice and keyboard are processed through modular synths and effect pedals, ASK-ABC-SESSIONS which focuses on keyboard and drums, and Acid-Folky-Style wraps Novo's songs with electric guitar.

Incidentally, Novo’s transparent singing voice sends band members to sleep magically, therefore, the members always have trouble listening to playbacks of rehearsals and gigs all the way through.

Amamjaubb believes that to keep changing is the way to reach the musical Shangri-la.

https://moonspeaks.bandcamp.com/
http://bunkai-kei.com/release/bk-k_010/

https://undertow.bandcamp.com/album/space-in-between
https://undertow.bandcamp.com/album/ep1
https://undertow.bandcamp.com/album/1985


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